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Show oo MINI BOOM fflU BATTLE MDHmM William Meager from Battle Mountain Moun-tain and one of the largo owners of placer ground at the head of Copper canyon, is in WInnemucca today attending at-tending to some legal matter in connection con-nection with the sale of placer ground at the head of Copper canyon to the "Ole" Elliott syndicate, now operating operat-ing on a large scale In the district, says the WInnemucca Star. The sum to be realized by Mr. Meager Mea-ger for this working privilege by EJllSott et al., reaches into the thousands thou-sands of dollars. Speaking of the rich placer deposits on the Copier canyon and Galena slopes, Mr. Meager said: "All the gravels on benches and bottoms bot-toms of draws declining north aud south prospect pay gold. The more prospecting done the more extensive the pay area becomes. As a fact all the gulches as well as some of the mountain sides respond liberally with the placer metal. "Willow creek and Box canyon are proving, from recent discoveries, a merit only second to Copper canyon. The latter canyon is exceedingly rich and prospects in places as much as $30 in the running foot and wherever bed rock has been reached the gold is found in such quantity as to assure continuous pay from the mouth to the summit to which the canyon extends. ex-tends. The richer channel Is from twenty-five to thirty-five feet wide. This strip will pay enormously and from competent placer miners the estimate es-timate is that more than $1,000,000 will be taken from the proven rich channel. Outsido of this channel the gravels prospect good gold values and will in time, when machinery Is in stalled, be worked extensively and will pay big. At present only the hand rocker is being worked. The dirt for this is hoisted from forty to fifty feet and of course the quantity handled in this way is limited, yet the workers clear from 30 to ?100 per day to the man. "A check upon the enlarged mining is due to litigation. It Is confidently anticipated that this will be settled this week and rightly settled, and It so there will be a humming activity and production of gold from Copper canyon that will give that section a Klondyke aspect. "The new discoveries are so important impor-tant as to attract new blood and capital to the district and It will be but a matter of time when machinery with an adequate supply of water, will handle the gravel and extract the millions of placer gold from the wide area over which the gold is distributed. distrib-uted. "In quartz and placer opportunities there is no district that surpasses the Battle Mountain section." no |